Child asylum-seekers missing in UK trafficked and coerced into Manchester’s gangs: the Observer

(Arab News) Currently, 200 children who arrived in Britain as asylum-seekers are missing from hotels run by the Home Office.

Some of the refugees abducted from outside hotels on the south coast have been trafficked and coerced into organized crime groups 260 miles away in north Manchester, an Observer investigation revealed.

According to one child protection source in Sussex, safety briefings on missing children discovered that some had “cropped up” in an area of Cheetham Hill known locally as “counterfeit alley” owing to its number of outlets selling counterfeit gear.

So far, Sussex police have located at least two children who went missing from Home Office hotels in the Greater Manchester Police area, the Observer reported. It is unknown how many people are still missing.

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